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The Spiral Staircase, Karen Armstrong, Used; Very Good Book

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Publication Name
The Spiral Staircase
ISBN
9780007122295
Publication Year
2005
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
The Spiral Staircase
Item Height
198mm
Author
Karen Armstrong
Publisher
HarperCollins
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Topic
Beliefs
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
260g
Number of Pages
368 Pages

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A raw, intensely personal memoir of spiritual exploration from one of the world's great commentators on religion. After seven years in a convent, which she left, dismayed by its restrictions, an experience recounted in 'Through the Narrow Gate', Karen Armstrong struggled to establish herself in a new way of life, and became entrapped in a downward spiral, haunted by despair, anorexia and suicidal feelings. Despite her departure from the convent she remained within the Catholic Church until the God she believed in 'died on me', and she entered a 'wild and Godless period of crazy parties and numerous lovers'. Her attempts to reach happiness and carve out a career failed repeatedly, in spectacular fashion. She began writing her bestseller 'A History of God' in a spirit of scepticism, but through studying other religious traditions she found a very different kind of faith which drew from Christianity, Judaism and Islam and, eventually, spiritual and personal calm. In her own words, her 'story is a graphic illustration - almost an allegory - of a widespread dilemma. It is emblematic of a more general flight from institutional religion and a groping towards a form of faith that has not yet been fully articulated but which is nevertheless in the process of declaring itself'. Her lifelong inability to pray and to conform to traditional structures of worship is shared by the many who are leaving the established churches but who desire intensely a spiritual aspect to their lives. 'The Spiral Staircase' grapples with the issue of how we can be religious in the contemporary world, and the place and possibility of belief in the 21st-century.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9780007122295
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
The Spiral Staircase
Author
Karen Armstrong
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Beliefs
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
368 Pages

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Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
260g

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Karen Armstrong
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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